Mônica MUNIZ DE SOUZA SIMAS

Position
Associate Professor
Roles
Member of the Joint Teacher-Student Commission
Telephone
041 234 5781
E-mail
monica.simas@unive.it
Academic discipline
Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone Literatures [FLMR-01/C]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/monica.simas(personal record)
Office
Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dslcc
Where: Ca' Bernardo

Office hours

Thursday: from 11:00 to 13:00. Ca' Bernardo, 3o. piano.

Teaching activity current year

Teaching activity previous years

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Letterature portoghese, brasiliana e di espressione lusofona [FLMR-01/C]
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
LETTERATURA PORTOGHESE E BRASILIANA [L-LIN/08]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Europa, America Latina, Estremo Oriente
Known languages
portoghese (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
espanholo (scritto: intermedio parlato: base)
cinese (scritto: base parlato: base)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
Rivista Desassossego (Programma di Laurea Magistrale di Letteratura Portoghese presso Università di Sao Paulo)
Rivista Convergencia Lusíada (Ufficio Reale Portoghese di Lettura)
Participation as referees of national and international research projects
CNPq - Consiglio Nazionale dello Sviluppo Scientifico e Tecnologico
FAPESP - Fondazione di Ricerca dello Stato di Sao Paulo
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Letteratura Linea: Letterature comparate
Area: Lingue e letterature dell’Asia Orientale Linea: cinese classica
Area: Lingue e letterature dell’Asia Orientale Linea: cinese moderna
Area: Lingue e letterature europee Linea: portoghese
Area: Storia e Antropologia Linea: Antropologia
Area: Studi postcoloniali Linea: Anglofonia
Letterature di lingua portoghese; letterature comparate; letterature di Macao; letterature in contesti migratori; memoria, estude etnografici
Description:
Portuguese language literature; comparative literature; Macau�s literature; literature in migratory contexts; memory and ethnographic estude
Keywords:
Literature, Comparative literature, Literary criticism
ATECO code:
[85.42] - istruzione universitaria e post-universitaria; accademie e conservatori
As culturas outras nas literaturas de língua portuguesa: cosmovisões e ancestralidades
SSD:
L-LIN/08
ICM, programma di scambio fra Università Ca' Foscari e Università Eduardo Mondlane di Maputo
Funding body:
Comunità Europea, Ufficio Erasmus
Type:
Erasmus+
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2024 Length in months: 36
Other members of the research group:
Vanessa CASTAGNA
Francesco VACCHIANO
Davide ZANCHETTIN
L'esperienza dell'orfanotrofio nella letteratura di Macao
Funding body:
CNPq - Consiglio Nazionale dello Sviluppo Scientifico e Tecnologico - Agenzia governativa
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2018 Length in months: 36

Publication highlights

Monica Muniz de Souza Simas; Ida Alves; Celia Pedrosa Poéticas de florestania: herdeiros de Macunaíma ou de Makunaimî? in Mônica Simas; Ida Alves; Celia Pedrosa; Alessandro Mistrorigo; Izabela Leal; Viviana Bosi; Paula Glenadel; Patricia Lavelle; Maria Fontes; Vera Lucia Oliveira; Pedro Eiras, La poesia e la condizione del dispatrio: la traduzione culturale e la (in)adattabilità, Venezia, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, vol. 25, pp. 63-84 (ISBN 979-12-5742-076-5) (ISSN 2610-9387)
DOI - URL correlato 2026, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5122127

Monica Simas; Ida Alves; Celia Pedrosa A poesia e a condição de estrangeiridade: a tradução cultural e a (in)adaptabilidade in Mônica Simas; Ida Alves; Celia Pedrosa., La poesia e la condizione del dispatrio: la traduzione culturale e la (in)adattabilità, Venezia, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, vol. 25, pp. 3-10 (ISBN 979-12-5742-076-5) (ISSN 2610-9387)
DOI - URL correlato 2026, Breve introduzione - ARCA card: 10278/5122130

Monica Simas; Ida Alves; Celia Pedrosa La poesia e la condizione del dispatrio: la traduzione culturale e la (in)adattabilità in Mônica Simas; Ida Alves; Celia Pedrosa., La poesia e la condizione del dispatrio: la traduzione culturale e la (in)adattabilità, Venezia, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, vol. 25, pp. 11-18 (ISBN 979-12-5742-076-5)
DOI - URL correlato 2026, Breve introduzione - ARCA card: 10278/5122129

(a cura di) Monica Simas; Ida Alves; Celia Pedrosa La poesia e la condizione del dispatrio: la traduzione culturale e la (in)adattabilità , Venezia, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, vol. 25, pp. 3-252 (ISBN 979-12-5742-076-5) (ISSN 2610-9387)
DOI - URL correlato 2026, Curatorship - ARCA card: 10278/5122128

Mônica Simas Illusioni e disillusioni in Histórias de Macau, di Altino Tojal in Monica Simas; Elisa Rossi; Everton V. Machado; Andrea Ragusa; Claudio Trognoni; Michela Graziani; Catarina Nunes de Almeida; Fabrizio Boscaglia, Il Viaggio in Oriente nella tradizione letteraria portoghese. Dal Cinquecento ai giorni nostri., Pisa, EDIZIONI ETS, vol. 1, pp. 111-125 (ISBN 9788846771858)
2025, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5098667

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Curriculum vitae

Mônica Simas is Associate Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies Department of the Ca 'Foscari University of Venice. She has a Doctorate (2001, with CNPq and CAPES PDEE grants) and a Master (1997, with CAPES grant) in Language and Literature at PUC-RJ. She is graduated in Language and Literature (Portuguese and English, 1993), also in Business Administration from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, 1990) and in Physical Education from Claretiano (2018).

She was Professor at PUC-RJ (2001-2003) and later at University of Sao Paulo (USP) from 2003 to 2021 where she got the title "Livre Docente" in 2013. In 2014 she was Visiting Professor at the University of Florence where she participated in various research activities.

She was one of the founders and coordinator of the Laboratory of Interlocutions with Asia (LIA - DLCV - USP). She also has coordinated the research group "Porta Macao: literature, languages ​​and cultures", certified by the National Research Council (CNPq) of Brazil. From 2015 to the present she is a researcher at the CNPq, receiving a research funding on the projects "Porta Macao: fictional constructs and poets of ways of living in multicultural contexts" and "The experience of the orphans in Macao literature". Now she is part of the Literature Group "Study of literature, Amerindian poetry and translation", coordinated by Izabela Guimarães Guerra Leal (Federal University Pará - UFPA) with the project "Other cultures in the Portuguese language: cosmovision and ancestrality"

She has developed a postdoctoral research in Macao literature under the supervision of Professor Yao Jing Ming (University of Macao) at the Macao Historical Archive, in 2015, and a postdoctoral research on Portuguese poetry at the Federal Fluminense University - UFF), in 2019, under the supervision of Professor Ida Alves, who is the coordinator of the research group "Literature and Landscape".

Her research interests are Portuguese cultures in Asia; Macao's literature and culture, post-colonialism; orientalism; interculturality; cultural diversity; literature and religion.

She is one of the founder and editor of Desassossego Journal (Scientific Journal A - USP - Brazil) and member of the Editorial Board of Convergencia Lusiada Journal (Royal Portuguese Reading Office of Rio de Janeiro - Real Gabinete Português de Leitura do Rio de Janeiro).

In 2008 she has received the "Talento 2007" award from the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for teaching and disseminating the literature in Portuguese language.

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